Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-09-01
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Twenty dlnerent states now observe
Arbor day.
Gladstone is the name of a new town
in California. 2~.Es .#-. . p
The Benedictine monastery of Ponti-
da is soon to be sold at auction.
There are eighteen thousand female
students in the colleges of this country
A three hundred pound turtle was
recently captured near st. Augustine
Fla.
There are seven persons in the town
of Genesee Falls, N. Y, who are over
9S years old. . -... ~
One Montana stock-raiser lost 20, ,0OO
head of cattle, last winter, out Oh
herd of $4,000.
Sir John Dean Paul, Baronet, is earn
ing his living as a photographer IN
Chelsea, London. ...
Dion Boucicault has an ''r in MS
name. but he hasn't written it Bour-
cicault for many years.
A bright young niece of Maria
Mitchell of Vassar is one the proof,
readers on the new Century dictionary.
Nine. Nilsseon, under the terms Of
her marriage with Count Miranda,
retains absolute control of all her
fortune. 3
Anew York sea captain has just sued
his third wife to obtain possession OF
"his second wife's shawl, nightgown,
and SIS in cash.
Baron Won Faber, the owner OF the
far famed Faber pencil factory at Nur
emberg, has celebrated the 10 ami
versary of its founding.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, dates his
prosperity from the time he was made
tutor to Peter Cooper's daughter whom
he afterward married. , M
Miss Florence Croft is the American
woman who has been admitted to
the School of Oriental Languages
(Arabic and Persian) in Paris.
A Pennsylvania capitalist has re.
Gently purchased fifty-seven thousand
acres of land in the northwest portion
of Haskell county, Texas, for grazing
purposes. ..
A party of young brutes at Bellville,
Can, compelled reformed drunkard
to drink liquor; his old appetite over,
powered him, he was arrested, and
died very soon after recovering from
his debauch.
Albert I. de Goicouria is the athlete
of the New York Stock Exchange. He
is q Cuban by birth. He married
the Youngest daughter of the late
William Wall, once Mayor of Williams
burg. She is an aunt of the well-known
Berry Wall.
Hotel and sleeping-car porters are
generally short-lived people, as the
former die of diseases of the heart pro
duced by the strain of lifting heavy
trunks, and the latter of enlargement
of the gall caused by over-exercise witt
whisk broom.
A Touring mill in Oregon pays al
adjoining sawmill $50 day for it
sawdust, which it uses for fuel in it
big furnaces. Their fuel cost then
$1,000 day before they found that the,
onnld hurn what most -Westorn sNV~
mills throw away.
1t is printed for fact in Kennebec
Me-, that citizen of that town bough
pocketfuAef peanuts, and was in th
act of eating them, when on crackin,
one a tSQy, full-blown pink rose, whicl
filled the interior of the shell, appeared
fresh and unfaded.
Bishop William Taylor, whose sell
supporting missions on the Cong
attract great attention, is a splendid
looking man, with piercing eyes an
very bright countenance. His beard
of silky texture and is long and spread
ing and of pure white.
The Massachusetts board of healt
recently analysed number of ten
perance drinks and discovered thf
not one of them was free from alcoho
One contained 44.3 of the intoxican
several 40 per cent, and tho other
more than 20 per cent,
Ten per cent of the counties i
Dakota now have ladies as Count
Superintendents of Schools, and the
average better than the men in point {
ability and application to their dutie
1t is believed that this position wi
soon be generally conceded to ladies
Dakota.
Vitrified stove-piping is now unive
sally used for drainage purposes bot
north and south. In the south in sma
villages and towns they take the plat
of pump logs, whose remains are y
exhumed occasionally from the debr
Of the underground past in the city
Richmond.
An Indian woman in the town
Patzcuro, Mexico, recently gave birt
to child with two heads, four arm
and four legs, but which was otherwi
perfectly normal. The monstrosi
died few hours after birth, and hi
been placed on exhibition, preserve
in the leading drug store of the place
Apriest in Salt Lake City came up'
girl of his congregation just
her sweetheart was kissing her goo
night in front of her mistress gat
He boxed the girls ears, rang the be
and, when the mistress appeared ga
short and instructive lecture on &
duties of women in her station
life.
Aunt Mary Francis. little eolort
woman of New Harmony, Ind, is sa
to be the Oldest person in Pos
County. She was born in Virginia 1
years ago. Though shriveled up un
she looks ikea dwarf, she is brig
and active. She has lost but one toot
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